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Polygyny and Sexual Selection in Red-Winged Blackbirds

Part of the Monographs in Behavior & Ecology series
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The aim of this text is to explain why red-winged blackbirds are polygynous and to describe the effects of this mating system on other aspects of the biology of the species.

Polygyny, the study shows, has the effect of intensifying sexual selection by increasing the variance in mating success.

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Princeton University Press
0691036861 / 9780691036861
Hardback
23/03/1995
United States
332 pages, 69 line drawings, 35 tables
138 x 216 mm, 490 grams
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